The revelation was made by Joy News’ Evans Mensah, Kwetey Nartey and host of Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, Kojo Yankson after weeks of painstakingly probing the claim made by the current SSNIT management.

Current SSNIT Director-General, Dr John Kojo Ofori Tenkorang told Joy News in August, the entire software is not functioning despite the huge money spent on it.

He said the non-functioning of the software is due to alterations made on it and some legal regime regulating their operations.

Former SSNIT boss, Ernest Thompson

But his predecessor, Ernest Thompson dismissed the claim, saying he was aware only one module was challenged.

“When I was in office, we realized that, that particular module was not giving us the correct figures that we wanted,” he told Joy News.

The initial cost of the software procured to automate processes at SSNIT was $34 million when it was awarded to Perfect Business Systems and Silver Lake Consortium in 2012. But this ballooned to $72 million, creating disaffection for the Trust.

Joy News’ Kwetey Nartey visited some SSNIT branches to access his pension contributions and expressed fascination at the speed his statement was printed.

He said: “within less than a minute I had my statement in hand…and updated my records.”

Joy News also established that the same SSNIT OBS was used by government to rid the payroll of over 26,589 ghost names.